| | Dear Green American, The holidays are around the corner and it's the perfect time to utilize your power as a consumer for a better world. In this month's newsletter, you can register for our upcoming webinar on energy justice, learn why you should skip Black Friday, find Black-owned businesses to shop from, and give sustainable gifts to your loved ones. Plus, learn about our new Soil Carbon Initiative partnership and take action to protect farmworkers and keep pesticides out of food. |
| |  | WEBINAR: Join The Push For Energy Justice (11/16) |
| Not sure what "energy justice" is? Join our webinar to meet Climate Campaigns Director Dan Howells and CEO of Silleck Consulting Services Elizabeth Silleck La Rue to learn how you can encourage telecom companies to advance energy justice! |
| |  | Shop & Support Black-Owned Businesses |
| Black-owned businesses strengthen local economies, create job opportunities, close the racial wealth gap, and celebrate diverse cultures. Read more to discover some fantastic Black-owned businesses to buy from, just in time for the holiday season! |
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 | Here's Why You Should SKIP Black Friday |
| This year and every year, we encourage you to skip shopping on Black Friday. Instead, take some time to appreciate what you already have, whether it’s the items that make your house feel homey or the people in your life you love. Learn why (and how) this Black Friday, we’re not buying it. |
| |  | Green America's Favorite Green Gifts & Traditions |
| There are plenty of ways to keep to the spirit of giving without contributing to rampant consumerism or contributing to needless waste. Check out our Green Gift Giving Guide to find out how you can give sustainably this holiday season! |
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| | |  | Banza Joins Green America's Soil Carbon Initiative |
| Banza, the maker of chickpea-based comfort foods, recently announced its participation in our Soil Carbon Initiative (SCI). Dedicated to the regenerative agriculture transition, SCI incentivizes farmers to improve soil health, biodiversity, climate resiliency, and farm economics. SCI and Banza will work together to quantify the impact chickpeas can have on soil health. |
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 | Green Business Network® Mentioned In TIME |
| Green America's Green Business Network® was recently mentioned in TIME Magazine's article "How Small Businesses Can Have a Big Impact in the Climate Fight". In the article, Fran Teplitz, Executive Co-Director for Business, Investing & Policy and Director of the Green Business Network®, discusses how small local actions can have large business impacts. |
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| |  | It's Time For the EPA to Ban Organophosphates |
| The EPA has a legal and moral obligation to protect farmworkers, children and communities. People living near fields where organophosphate pesticides are sprayed can become sick from just breathing the air. Workers are the most at risk from exposure on the job, plus increased contamination of their drinking water and food. The only way to protect people is to ban organophosphates as quickly as possible. |
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 | Demand Congress Protect Native Sacred Places |
| Hundreds of Indigenous sacred sites across the country -- places of Indigenous foods, medicines, ceremony, burial sites, and creation stories -- have been threatened and desecrated by the climate crisis and by harmful development projects. Urge Congress to increase protection for federal lands that contain Tribal cultural sites, and to ensure that Tribal governments are afforded the rights due to them as sovereign nations. |
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